Yanks get a little luck of the Irish today.

We beat the Red Sox today, and any time we do that.....it's a good day.  March, June, October....doesn't matter.  I noticed the mouse didn't see any action today.....he's probably in his hole hoarding some cheese.  Hope everyone has had a great St. Patrick's Day so far, and I hope all the good Catholics out there did their celebrating on Saturday rather than today, since we're not supposed to celebrate feast days during Holy Week.  And I hope you're wearing some green so you don't get pinched.  Moving on from there to the game, I think we looked really good.....our pitching was a little wobbly but it held and we put up 8 runs, which is a nice bit of offense.  And we did all of this with Alex sitting on the bench today.  Andy started for us and looked shaky, giving up 3 runs in 3 1/2 innings.  Phillips, Albaladejo, Traber and Bruney all pitched after him and did very well, only giving up 1 run and 5 hits amongst them.  It was nice to see the kids (and Bruney) getting some work in and doing well.
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Like I mentioned earlier, we scored 8 runs and they all came off the fantastic duo of Bartolo Colon and Julian Tavarez.  Two men so grotesque, they make the blind weep.  One looks like Mr. Creosote from The Meaning of Life and the other looks like Freddy Kruger got into a fight with a beaker of acid.  I think the Yanks got so scared, they just hit the ball to avoid having to look at either of them for too long.  And that's an interesting way to go about doing it.  Maybe this year, they need to envision all pitchers looking like that....maybe we'll win something this year that way.  Hey, at this point.....we should be willing to try anything.  Godzilla went 3-4 with 3 RsBI, Robbie went 2-3 with 3 RsBI and Bobby Abreu went 2-3 with 2 RsBI.  Rounding out the action, Jason went 2-3 and DJ went 1-3.  One thing I have noticed about the Yankees this ST is that we're doing better getting 2-out RBI.  That was a problem for us last season.....we'd have a runner on 3rd or even on 2nd and a base hit would score a run (or 2) and we'd continually leave them stranded.  I hope the team has been working on the little things to bring runners in when we need to.  I'm not saying focus solely on "smallball" (God, I hate that phrase), but I would like to see them utilizing it more often, rather than relying completely on HRs.  So overall it was a very good game and a great win over a rival.....even if this is completely meaningless. 
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Stars of the Game™
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Other Stars™ go out to Robbie, Jason and Bobby for their contributions to this afternoon's win.  Way to go, guys!